Nielsen is the company that tracks who is watching what TV shows. Basically, it is the company that put San Antonians in a tizzy about how few people watched the Spurs win their latest NBA title.

Anyway, Nielsen has put San Antonio on a list of cities where it will use an electronic people meter to record TV watchers. Previously, fellow couch potatoes were asked to keep a diary of what shows they watched. Apparently, people aren’t as reliable as computers. But the people meters have come under fire as well.

The new recording will not come for a few years. It is scheduled to start in San Antonio in 2010.